The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 48
I shall never grow rich by what I earn as a scullion, even though I am paid as much in a month as I should get elsewhere in a year.”
Who acts: I · What happens: not grow, earn, pay, get · To what, where: I
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 grow | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 grow | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 grow | advmod |
| 4 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 grow | xcomp |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 what | case |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 rich | obl |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 earn | nsubj |
| 9 | earn | earn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 what | acl:relcl |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 scullion | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 scullion | det |
| 12 | scullion | scullion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 earn | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 paid | punct |
| 14 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 paid | advmod |
| 15 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 18 paid | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 paid | nsubj |
| 17 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 paid | aux:pass |
| 18 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 grow | parataxis |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | _ | 20 much | advmod |
| 20 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 paid | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 month | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 month | det |
| 23 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 much | nmod |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 get | mark |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 get | nsubj |
| 26 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 get | aux |
| 27 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 paid | advcl |
| 28 | elsewhere | elsewhere | ADV | _ | 27 get | advmod |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 year | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 year | det |
| 31 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 get | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grow | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 grow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not grow | shall | I | rich property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | earn | present | I | as a scullion | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | pay | present · passive | I | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Recipient much=Asset | |||||
| 4 | get | should | I | year | elsewhere property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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